Marvel, Supernatural, Star Trek, and everything fandom-related in between. If it's worth reading, watching, or listening to — I'm on it, and telling you about it.
I've been at Startefacts since the actual beginning back in 2022.
One of my early assignments was covering CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where I sat in a dark hall geeking out over Doctor Strange footage and thought: God, this is a dream job for me.
Well, turns out — not THE dream job, per se. Entertainment journalism is hard, harder than ever in 2026, with AI threatening your integrity and your work ethic at every turn. But hey: I still try. I love what I do, and I love writing about the MCU, however shitty their movies have gotten over the last few years. I'm still in my chair in a movie theater when a new Nolan movie comes out, or a Guy Ritchie movie, or frankly any Statham movie.
What I cover: the MCU and superhero cinema, long-running genre TV (Supernatural, Star Trek, and their fandoms), fan culture and how it shapes what gets made, action filmmaking and the directors who take it seriously.
How I work: I watch the thing before I write about it — the whole thing, not the recap. I rewatch scenes when my memory isn't reliable, which is often. I check release dates, credits, production history, and source material against primary sources — press notes, the books, the people who made it — not the top-ranking aggregator. If I got something wrong, I fix it and say so in the piece.
Where else to find me:Twitter/X — tips, corrections, and complaints about my Statham opinions all welcome.
When does Insidious: Out of the Further take place?
The Insidious franchise has two prequels, a legacy sequel, one recurring dead lady, and now a sixth film with a brand-new family. Asking when anything "takes place" in this series is like asking a ghost for its birth certificate. But let's try.
How is Elise alive in Insidious: Out of the Further? Lin Shaye has now been on six posters for a character who died in film one
Elise Rainier died in 2010. She has been the face of this franchise ever since. If that math offends you, you have not been paying attention to how the Insidious movies work — or to how much this series refuses to function without Lin Shaye.
What happened to the world in The Dog Stars? By 2035 Hig's world is a Colorado airfield with the Reapers outside the fence
Forget the montage of collapsing cities. By the time The Dog Stars starts, the collapse is old news. It's 2035, the dust has settled, and what's left of civilization is a man, a dog, a grump, and a fence.
Which book is The Dog Stars based on? A 2012 debut novel that waited 14 years for the screen
Somewhere in Denver there's an author who wrote a quiet, poetic apocalypse novel in 2012 and then watched Hollywood take fourteen years to figure out what to do with it. His name is Peter Heller, and his patience has been rewarded with Ridley Scott, of all people.
Why was Coyote vs Acme shelved? It was the third finished Warner film to vanish in little over a year
Imagine finishing a movie. The whole movie. Actors paid, animation rendered, test audiences happy. Now imagine your boss looks at it and says: what if, instead of releasing this, we pretend it never existed for tax purposes?
Who is the new James Bond? A fresh insider report calls every rumored 2026 frontrunner "bogus"
If you've spent 2026 emotionally investing in the Bond rumor mill — Callum Turner is locked! No wait, Jacob Elordi! Actually it's Jack Lowden, or Paul Mescal, or Harris Dickinson, or a Jack Barton from Heartstopper — I have news, and the news is that you can log off.
Why did "Blue Bloods" really end? Tom Selleck finally explained the decision the cast fought against
Blue Bloods wrapped in December 2024 after 293 episodes of Reagan family dinners, and ever since, Tom Selleck has been circling the cancellation like a detective who knows the case doesn't add up.
Hannah Waddingham's first TV role was a single strip-club scene: her forgotten 2002 debut on "Coupling" just resurfaced — and she's unrecognizable in it
Every icon has a Before picture. Meryl had The Deadliest Season. Brad had the El Pollo Loco chicken suit. And Hannah Waddingham — Emmy winner, Eurovision host, owner of television's most weaponized cheekbones — had Jenny Turbot, lap dancer.
